Radio: The Week in Review

U.S. television last week stirred up more excitement overseas than it
did at home. To begin with, J. Fred Muggs, the 31-lb. chimpanzee who
earns $500 a week for co-starring on NBC's Today with Dave Garroway,
stopped traffic in Paris, Rome, Cairo and Tokyo on a whirlwind
round-the-world tour. London was skipped because NBC felt that British
memories might still be green about Muggs's narrowly stealing the
coronation telecast from Queen Elizabeth. NBC Pressagent Mary A. Kelly,
one of Muggs's entourage of five, wrote home excitedly that Parisians
were exclaiming, "Regardez la petite...